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غَلَب overcome/prevail in Arabic

غَلَب is how you say “overcome/prevail” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وأما تفسيره للعلماء فجائز حسن والاجماع منعقد عليه فمن كان أهلا للتفسير جامعا للأدوات حتى التي يعرف بها معناه وغلب على ظنه المراد فسره

As for interpretation by scholars, it is permissible and good, and consensus is established on it. Whoever is qualified for interpretation, possessing the necessary tools — including those by which its meaning is known — and the intended meaning is most likely in their view, then they may interpret it.

وَغَلَبَ and it is predominantly

'and it came to prevail' — a past verb opening the second condition. With the phrase ahead ('upon his judgment') it forms an idiom: the intended sense becomes what he most strongly thinks, his best estimate.

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